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Friday, November 06, 2015

Black students more likely to be suspended by MCPS than by Texas schools

In Texas, there are also racial disparities in school discipline. But the Texas Appleseed report, titled "Suspended Childhood", found that black students in that state are less likely to be suspended than black students in Montgomery County. Black students in Texas are more than 2 times as likely to be suspended as whites - not laudable, but lower than in MCPS schools.

Montgomery County should consider this comparison, and some of the recommendations in this report, as it continues to struggle with a growing achievement gap. A 2014 County Office of Legislative Oversight report confirmed that MCPS had declined, and the achievement gap had widened, since 2010.

And that superintendent search? Yeah, that search. They'll get around to it. Maybe some of the WMATA runners-up will give it go. The Montgomery County Council and Board of Education have made slouching a science.

The reality is that ANY student regardless of race needs to behave. The data is just nonsense and does not take into consideration many diffenerences between texas (a state) and MoCo (a county). Leave race out of it. This is just another racist study designed to fuel a fire that should not exist in 2015. End Racism.

5:35 You are a real oxymoron first you want to ignore the factor of race in this study, then you attack the comparative bodies in the study. Yes, it would be Shangri-la to have all students play nice, not happening, never will. Then you want to end racism. Can't have your cake and eat it too dude. Get over yourself, racism is real, whether it overt or covert. You come off as a closet racist.

Dyer: "A recent report...showed African-American students in Montgomery County Public Schools are 3 times as likely to be suspended from school as white and Asian students...the Texas Appleseed report, titled "Suspended Childhood", found that black students in that state are less likely to be suspended than black students in Montgomery County. Black students in Texas are more than 2 times as likely to be suspended as whites - not laudable, but lower than in MCPS schools."

From the Texas study: "Black students make up about 13% of the elementary school population in Texas, but they account for 42% of all Pre-K through 5th grade out-of-school suspensions."

Three times 13% is 39%. 42% is greater than three times 13%.

Congratulations, Dyer, you birdbrain. You got the statistics exactly backwards.

Why are you comparing Montgomery County, MD to Texas? Are you sure you're comparing to the right Montgomery County? There are Montgomery Counties in Texas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, in fact I think there are a total of at least 18 "Montgomery" Counties in the United States

10:18: You're the birdbrain - look at the report, and it says exactly what I said - more than two times as likely. If it was more than 3 times, the authors would have said that in bold print, as it would have made their case that much stronger.

12:28: Because Texas, which is cleaning our clock in economic development, is so often criticized by Maryland politicians for supposedly being far inferior to us in education and schools. How shocking it is, then, to find that racial disparities in MCPS are greater than in Texas. Very newsworthy, and part of a growing stack of damning evidence that our elected officials are failing the children of Montgomery County - and aren't capable of solving the problems.

"Birdbrain"? That's a term I'm sure used by many of your professional journalist peers. As with previous posters comments, exercising a little self restraint will go a long way in increasing your credibility when compared to your "competitors"

3:12: If that was the conclusion of the data Texas Appleseed used, then they would have said "more than three times". They did not. They said more than two times. So did every other media outlet that reported on the study. Are you calling the study authors and the reporters in question morons?

3:31: Everyone can see it was the commenter who called me "birdbrain". I await your criticism of his comment. In fact, I've been addressed in more vulgar terms by your so-called "professional journalists", and have the emails to prove it. Stop trolling.

The Beaters are far from credible. Slanted coverage heavily influenced by the likes of EYA, Hull's personal plagiarism of a number of Dyer's stories, fake "best of" awards to loyal advertisers, shall I go on?Not the stuff of credibility.In Dyer we trust.

@5:08PM - Where are the personal attacks in the BB comments? No one is calling any of those writers "birdbrain" or threatening with baseball bats. Again, I've just checked over 30 and didn't see those types of comments. Moot point.

1:04: You're the one who didn't read the whole report. You're grabbing some numbers from the early pages and trying to create an alternative conclusion. Read the whole report, and you'll eventually get to the actual authors' statement that blacks are "twice as likely" to be suspended in Texas, vs. "three times as likely" in MoCo, per the MoCo report I cited. Stick with it. You can do it.

The report does not in fact read as you have written. What it states: "Overall, Black students were more than twice as likely to receive out-of-school suspensions as White students during the 2013-2014 school year."

Note the "more than twice as likely." As noted earlier above, the rate is in fact more than three times as likely using the data provided in the Texas report.

The report data is meaningless anyway without some breakdown of how socioeconomic status may influence the suspension rate. For all we know the lion's share of the suspensions could be occurring in handful of schools in distressed economic environments.

8:04: So, your theory is that the professionals who authored the report are so moronic that they downplayed the severity of the problem, and went with a less-powerful "more than twice"? And that your anonymous comment carries more weight than the actual report and other media outlets who all concluded Texas black students were "more than twice as likely to be suspended"? Yeah, okay. Anonymous comments are always a reliable source, for sure ...